After 3 months and 3000 pics I'm still very satisfied. I bought it at 80% of the price of G1 in Denmark. I value the generally very good quality of the pics, esp. close-up and macro pics. Unlike some other reviewers I find you can have shutter-priority; it's just a bit unhandy because you have to dig in the menu.Landscape pics are a bit blurry, but tend to be dull anayway....Snowy nightpics with long shutterspeed (8 s) on tripod are impressive.

Problems:

Zoom and other reactions slow at times: my daughter know exactly when to duck not to get into the picture. On the other hand this gives more snapshot-like/unexpected pictures! Difficulty with sporting events but it's probably because I don't master the manual fast shutter possibilities.